“Which is admirable and good — if you’re looking for a friend or selling Girl Scout cookies or greeting people at the entrance of a Wal-Mart or styling hair at Franck’s Beauty Salon. But if you’re trying to win an NBA title, it’s not so — how should we say it? — sooper-dee-dooper.”

Sooper-dee-dooper?

Whatever. We get the picture.

It’s why the gent churning out Utah’s prominent fan blog has a solution today for Game 3 tomorrow. What the Jazz need, and soon, he writes, is all too clear.

“And once this team finds some mojo, watch out,” the blogger posts. “In that vein, my keys for winning the series: 1. Bring back Billy.

“Last fall, Billy Ray Cyrus sang the National Anthem in St. Louis on route to the Cardinals winning the World Series. Several weeks later he sang the same tune on opening night in the Delta Center. In Billy Ray’s own words on the KJZZ telecast, he ‘brought the World Series mojo’ with him. The Jazz went on to win that game against the Rockets and go 12-1 in their first 13 games. Coincidence? You be the judge.”

“Boy, we really DO sound whiny!” he confesses. “I can come up with all the excuses in the world about why we sound that way and justify it all we want but I think it’s time to man (or woman) up and realize that even without game 5, the Suns still could have won the series if they were ‘destined’ or good enough to do so.”

 Guess it’s true. We couldn’t even sell out Game 1, and the rest of the nation isn’t paying much attention, either. The viewership for that game was down 51 percent from a season ago. Ouch.

 Speaking of Stoudemire, who whined about sportsmanship in the Spurs series, there’s photographic proof that he high-tailed it off the AT&T Center court after Game 6 without shaking hands with San Antonio players. There are losers, and there are losers.

I’m handing the Courtside baton off to Tom Orsborn this afternoon. He’ll be in Salt Lake City this weekend, while yours truly will be sitting at Freeman Coliseum watching Patricia Oliver graduate from Reagan High School. That ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday — roughly the same time the Spurs and Jazz will be tipping off Game 3. Whatever happens in Utah, I’ll be winning at home.